Month: June 2014

“The Longest Unwritten Chapter”: Interrelated Histories of African and Native America

[ November 21, 2014; 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. ] Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.

Department of Ethnic Studies presents
Peggy Pascoe Memorial Lecture
Professor Tiya Miles—“The Longest Unwritten Chapter”: Interrelated Histories of African and Native America

Professor Tiya Miles is the Elsa Barkley Brown Collegiate Professor of African American Women’s History in the Department of American Cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research and creative […]

Brazilian Documentary: Two lectures by visiting scholar Gilberto Alexandre Sobrinho

[ November 17, 2014; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. November 19, 2014; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. ] 221 Allen Hall
1020 University St.
UO campus

Brazilian Video Documentary
The Latin American Studies program is bringing Brazilian scholar Gilberto Alexandre Sobrinho to give two lectures on November 17 and November 19, both at 6PM at 221 Allen Hall. The talks are titled “National Identity during the Military Dictatorship in Brazil: Documentaries and Travels,” and “Women, Videos and […]

Michael Hames-García Edits Spring 2014 Aztlán Spotlight Dossier on Jotería Studies

Incoming CSWS director Michael Hames-García (professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies) edited a special “Dossier” section on jotería studies for the journal Aztlán (Vol. 39, No. 1, Spring 2014).
From the UCLA website description: “This collection of twelve articles, curated by Michael Hames-García (University of Oregon), offers a variety of perspectives on jotería studies, which Hames-García identifies as […]

“¡Santa!: Afro-Diasporic Ways of Being and Knowing,” with Ana-Maurine Lara

[ November 21, 2014; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_20646" align="alignright" width="166"] Ana-Maurine Lara[/caption]

204 Condon Hall
1321 Kincaid St.
UO campus
CLLAS Visiting Scholar Ana-Maurine Lara to deliver lecture about her research
Ana-Maurine Lara is the first ever Visiting Scholar with the UO Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies. She recently completed her PhD in African American Studies and Anthropology at Yale University. Her first academic […]

Native Studies Research Colloquium — Lynn Stephen

[ December 1, 2014; 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_3969" align="alignright" width="232" class=" "] Professor Lynn Stephen (photo by Michael McDermott)[/caption]

 

 

Many Nations Longhouse
1630 Columbia St.
UO campus
Free & open to the public
(Bring Your Own Lunch)
“Transborder Gendered Violence and Resistance: Indigenous Women Migrants Seeking U.S. Asylum”
a talk by Dr. Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, and Director of the Center […]

Schools of Shame Map (SOS-Map) | Fembot Collective

Schools of Shame Map (SOS-Map) | Fembot Collective.
This map lists universities in the US that need help addressing sexual violence: all of them.
“The problem of sexual violence on college campuses was very much on Fembot Collective members Hye-Jin Lee and Carol Stabile’s minds when they met at the Console-ing Passions Conference in Columbia, Missouri in […]